Reflections on Theology & Life From an Ordinary Pastor

Preparing for Sunday – A Gospel-Saturated Mother

Posted on May 10, 2012 in Marriage and Family, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Carefully Think Read through the following passages and list everything you find that Scripture emphasizes as a woman’s and/or a...

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Cultivating the Beatitudes

Posted on May 8, 2012 in Biblical Studies, Christian Living, Featured Articles, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

This past Sunday, I completed a series of sermons on the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:1-12. Each passing week’s message was used by God in...

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Preparing for Sunday – Matthew 5:10-12

Posted on May 3, 2012 in Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Here are a number of suggestions for those who will be attending Summit Woods Baptist Church this Sunday on how you can be prepared for...

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Preparing for Sunday – Matthew 5:4

Posted on Mar 22, 2012 in Biblical Studies, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Carefully Think Read Matthew 5:4 Recall from last week what it does and does not mean to be “blessed.” How is this beatitude...

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Mid-Week Minutes 1.4.12

Posted on Jan 4, 2012 in Christian Living, Pastoral Ministry, Video | 0 comments

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Preparing for Sunday – Numbers

Posted on Jul 28, 2011 in Biblical Studies, Featured Articles, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Carefully Think The biblical book of Numbers has several of the most memorable scenes from Israel”™s early days after the...

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Mid-Week Minutes 7-27-11

Posted on Jul 27, 2011 in Biblical Studies, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching, Video | 0 comments

Make Leviticus practical. In Leviticus last week we said it covered 5 ways we live with God – or that He lives with us: sacrifice,...

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Preparing for Sunday – Leviticus

Posted on Jul 21, 2011 in Biblical Studies, Featured Articles, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Carefully Think Read through Leviticus 1-5 and make a list of the various offerings Israel was to give. What was the role of the...

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mid-Week Minutes 7.13.11

Posted on Jul 13, 2011 in Pastoral Ministry, Preaching, Video | 0 comments

How to Meditate on Sunday’s Message How to Meditate on Sunday’s Message In this week’s Mid-Week Minutes: This is VBS...

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Mid-Week Minutes 7.6.11

Posted on Jul 6, 2011 in Pastoral Ministry, Video | 0 comments

How Are You Intentionally Assimilating the Truth You Hear Each...

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Mid-Week Minutes 5.11.11

Posted on May 11, 2011 in Ecclesiology, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 1 comment

Taking a few mid-week minutes to think about how to enhance our fellowship with each other. Sunday’s Sermon, What Makes a Church?...

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Baptism Makes a Church

Posted on May 9, 2011 in Biblical Studies, Ecclesiology, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

I am in the midst of a short series of sermons on What Makes a Church. Yesterday’s sermon was on the subject of baptism and looked...

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Preparing for Sunday-Baptism Makes a Church

Posted on May 5, 2011 in Ecclesiology, Featured Articles, Pastoral Ministry, Preaching | 0 comments

Our sermon this Sunday will be on the subject of baptism as a defining marker of what makes a church.  As you prepare for Sunday consider...

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iPad and Pastoral Ministry: An Update – Part 2

Posted on Apr 21, 2011 in Featured Articles, Ordinary Pastor, Pastoral Ministry, Technology | 4 comments

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iPad and Pastoral Ministry: An Update – Part 1

Posted on Apr 19, 2011 in Featured Articles, Pastoral Ministry, Personal, Technology | 0 comments

Last January, when Apple announced the introduction, I published a post about how I thought ordinary pastors might make use of this new...

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Sermon Accountability

Posted on Apr 8, 2011 in Preaching | 0 comments

Richard Baxter wrote: Remember that all these . . . sermons must be reviewed, and you must answer for all that yo have heard, whether you...

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Preparing for Sunday-How to Hear a Sermon

Posted on Apr 7, 2011 in Featured Articles, Preaching, Worship | 0 comments

Carefully Think Read through the following passages and think about what they about the importance of listening:  Matthew 11:5; 13:9,...

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Be Diligent to Listen to Sermons

Posted on Apr 7, 2011 in Preaching | 0 comments

The Westminster Confession Larger Catechism states: ‘It is required of those that hear the Word preached that they attend upon it...

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The TV and the Sermon

Posted on Apr 7, 2011 in Preaching | 0 comments

[Timothy Turner] explains how TV watching and preaching are diameterically opposed to one another – one is visual, the other is...

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Preaching is Always Effective

Posted on Apr 6, 2011 in Preaching | 1 comment

Even when preaching the Word of God does not soften and save and heal, it is not necessarily ineffective.  This preaching of the Word...

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